> There has always been a class of ruling super-elites. Always has, always will be. Period. Depends on the culture and technology level. With primitive techno

> There has always been a class of ruling super-elites. Always has, always will be. Period. Depends on the culture and technology level. With primitive technology in certain cultures, there's a "big man" who still has to farm his own yams but who gets a little more input generally -- however, he doesn't actually get to order people about. Then you get a little more technology and some bigwig is bossing people around. I think we will come out the other side where technology is so advanced that nobody really needs to depend on other people, thus we will be independently equal, and thus, not be ruled over. Not to mention, with nonbiological intelligence, the difference between any two humans intellectually will just be noise.